En danseuse - Emmanuelle Huynh

En danseuse is a piece of work choreographed, based on a creative  process that focuses on the body of the choreographer-dancer. A series  of collaborations of Alain Michard with several choreographers from  different generations, and varied backgrounds led to the birth of this  piece, a ‘collection of dances’ with scenography using sound and video.

En danseuse is made of a scenographic installation which combines images  of dance and sounds. Is it thought of as a confrontation between two  choreographical forms, but also between two memories. It offers to  audiences several ways of looking at the work, and appeals to their own  memories of dance.

En danseuse is based on the idea that the body of the choreographer is  the very source of their work, and carries within himself/herself a true  History of dance. Vast and unique, this dance History is made of dances  which have been lived, but also dances that have been seen or dreamt,  and of everything that has fit in with ‘choreographic material’.
En danseuse questions the role of images, and how they are active both in memory and in the choreographic gesture.

Emmanuelle Huynh, dancer, choreographer and teacher, studied dance and philosophy. Some creations: Mùa (1995), A Vida Enorme (2002), Cribles (2009), TÔZAI!… (2014), A taxi driver, an architect and the High Line (2016) or Formation (2017).  Her work is supported by Plateforme Múa, which is labeled «company and  ensemble with national and international influence». From 2004 to 2012,  she managed the CNDC Angers. After a position at the Ecole Nationale  Supérieure d’Architecture in Nantes, she has been Professor at the École  Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris since September 2016.